Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told someone thinks his soup is more important than singing," bellows the King's henchman if a nonsinger is detected. "He who does not sing goes to the stocks, and we encourage bread to be thrown at him." Without further encouragement, the customers begin beating their spoons on tables and chanting, "Stocks, stocks" and the hapless miscreant, man or woman, is unceremoniously clapped in a pillory and pelted with wads of bread by his fellow diners. As a consolation, the prisoner may also receive spontaneous-and sympathetic-kisses from other diners...
...supreme challenge to gluttons is posed by the $10 Fiesta dinner offered by the Club El Bianco on Chicago's Southwest Side. The three-to four-hour Super Bowl of Gluttony begins with appetizers (bean salad, salami and pepperoni) and a vast antipasto tray, continues with soup, tossed salad, stuffed peppers, ribs, eggplant parmigiana, veal scallopini, chicken cacciatore and piles of pasta. Dessert includes pastries, fruit and cookies, followed by a nut cart. If anyone complains that he is still hungry, Manager Peter Bianco Jr. has a secret weapon that few could stomach: a huge submarine sandwich topped...
Shoppers pick up soup meat for $ 1 per Ib. and examine jars of jam that cost $1.15. They drink their coffee watered-down-because it costs $2 per Ib.-and pass up steaks that run $3 to $4 per Ib. for an indifferent cut. Even the rich, dark German bread in Limburg goes for an average of 60? a loaf. I asked one supermarket customer how he would vote on Nov. 19. "I am not yet sure," he replied. "I won't tell you what party I belong to, but I will say that I'm not sure...
...secret is in the fast pace and uniformly good acting - a rarity on TV - rather than the sometimes tired scripts. The Jewish mother is now a walking cliche, but Bibi Osterwald makes palatable even the thousandth serving of chicken soup. Audra Lindley is just as good as Bridget's mother, an Upper East Side Edith Bunker who sweetly tells her husband that Bridget could not have eloped since she had not yet picked out her silver pattern...
...drink scotch or cognac any more. The oranges and lettuce often perish unsold. A shoemaker complains: "There are never any customers. I have ten children, and I have to spend at least 1,000 piasters [$2.50] a day to feed them. I can't afford a bowl of soup for lunch...